It's pretty difficult to get on the ballot, but its not horribly hard, at least if you're a third party canidate. Michael Badnarik got in 47 states with only about a million bucks towards his campaign, but Ross Perot on the other hand could only get 50 after spending something like a billion dollars from his fortune amassed from his business career. So if your a third party canidate, your in luck. Independent or "fourth party" (the smallest of third parties), your screwed.
Anyways, what DO I feel about the government? I feel it's wayyyyyyyyyyyyy tooooo big, and although the states does pretty well for its economic freedom, continuing policies of the New Deal and Keynesian philosophy (which was originally to get out of a depression) past the Great depression and world war was killer to the idea of freedom in a much finer, purer form. Even Keynes, before his death, worried such would happen and that people would keep the idea of big government simply because politicians are greedy bastards.
But I'm optimistic. With people like Vaclav Klaus coming into the worlds light following the legacy of the likes of Milton Friedman and the Austrian school of economics, I believe we'll be able to return to our original ethic within 50 years or so.
Edited by Athean, 18 September 2007 - 01:43 PM.